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Worth noting that DOGE's smash-and-grab on regulatory agencies is almost certain, given how chaotic and incompetent the actions are, to bump into Tesla's dependencies on federal money. We've already seen knock-on affects of the tariff war, which merit a single short mention in the article.


In a rational world, I’d think you were right. In the weirdo, crony world we currently appear to live in, I expect that all subsidies to competitors will end and Tesla’s will remain untouched via fiat.

There’s just no reason for an administration that already produced a state-run ad for the company to stop cutting them breaks.


In a competent world, they'd be able to determine the difference between ones that affect Tesla and ones that don't. I'm not sure we're in that world.


Ha, fair point - I suppose we could find out if they’ll get lucky anyway with a couple of basic ChatGPT prompts.




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